Bug#871920: musescore-common: please split out the FluidR3Mono_GM.sf3 sound font into a separate package

Fabian Greffrath fabian at debian.org
Tue Oct 10 19:12:16 UTC 2017


Hi again,

Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2017, 17:41 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Glaser:
> What if they decide to stop shipping it?

then we would proceed as we did for the previous soundfont they
provided, i.e. timgm6mb-soundfont. That is, we would continue to
package it in its own source package.

.o(On the other hand, musescore requires a soundfont to be installed in
order to work, so why should they ever stop shipping one? In that case,
we would have to ship the soundfont in its own source package anyway,
and in the meantime musescore could/would have to use one of the other
soundfonts already packaged in Debian -- it is still able to read the
SF2 format after all.)

> Yes, but, I’m a MuseScore user, and so really really *really* wish
> to not prevent getting a newer version.

I don't think the soundfont is to blame for the slow adaption of
musescore 2.0 in Debian. It was just the usual packaging glue. ;)

If future problems arise with the soundfont, we will package it in its
own source package and upload new musescore releases to experimental in
the mean time. I don't see why this should be so much different from
any other "transition". ;)

> I can do that, but thanks.

Cool, thank you!

 - Fabian
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